Filed under: Subaru , Toyota , Japan , Coupe , Performance If you like the Scion FR-S but aren’t a fan of its aggressively styled front end, you’d apparently be in good company in Japan, where Toyota is offering this re-snouted 86 Style Cb edition. Continue reading Toyota updates 86 in Japan with this weird special edition Toyota updates 86 in Japan with this weird special edition originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Filed under: Motorsports , Toyota , Coupe , Racing Toyota readies rally-going version of the Scion FR-S for the R3 class, available for privateer teams for less than $95,000 to field in national and international events including the HJS TMG CS-R3 Trophy starting this summer. Continue reading Toyota GT86 CS-R3 ready to rally Toyota GT86 CS-R3 ready to rally originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

DETROIT, Jan. 9, 2015 – Scion is using technology in its exhibit at the 2015 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) to engage with young consumers about its exciting lineup of youth-oriented vehicles.

Filed under: Convertible , Coupe , Performance , Scion , Toyota Ever since Toyota and Subaru released the sports car alternatively known as the GT86, 86, BRZ and Scion FR-S a couple of years ago, rumors have circulated that even more exciting variants could be in store. But at least as far as Scion is concerned, those rumors are apparently nothing more than wishful thinking. Speaking with WardsAuto at the LA Auto Show last week, Scion chief Doug Murtha said that the prospect of an FR-S roadster has been taken off the table entirely. Apparently Scion lobbied parent company Toyota to produce just such a model, but after failing to find other markets interested enough in the model to put it into production, corporate HQ said no. “I think we were pretty aggressive on our (submitted plan), but we looked at what we would have conceivably lost on the product and said, ‘We’re not going to even push it further,'” Murtha said, going on to note, “Nobody was more disappointed than we were.” Murtha further shot down the idea of a turbo version of the FR-S, dismissing it as a prospect the blogosphere (that’s us) wanted to happen but “that’s not something that’s coming.” Either variant might have helped Scion and Toyota boost sales of the model (which are predictably dropping after their first two years on the market), but the investment also might not have paid off their development, tooling and marketing costs. Of course, Murtha can only speak for Toyota, but we’d be surprised to see Subaru go it alone on either model, as costs would be that much more prohibitive without a partner. Bummer. Scion rules out roadster, turbo versions of FR-S originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Filed under: Concept Cars , Wagon , Hatchback , Scion , Toyota When the doors open at the LA Auto Show in a few weeks, Scion will be on hand to showcase its new iM Concept . But considering what little Toyota’s youthful brand has revealed about the concept so far, it’s led to rampant speculation. And the prevailing wisdom seems to point towards a production iM arriving as a Scion-badged version of the Toyota Auris . For those unfamiliar, the Auris is to European (and other) markets essentially what the Matrix is ( was? ) to ours: a hatchback version of the Corolla . The model line was first introduced in 2006, looking in its first iteration like an overgrown version of the contemporary second-gen Yaris , and was replaced with the current model in 2012. It’s available as a five-door hatch or wagon, with a range of gasoline, diesel and hybrid powertrains available. If the rumors – spurred by the similarity of the iM concept’s nose depicted in the teasers – prove accurate, and public reception to the idea ends up spurring Toyota to put it into action, it wouldn’t be the first overseas Toyota brought over as a Scion. The Scion iQ was sold as the Toyota iQ overseas years before it arrived here. Toyota and Scion are not, of course, the only automakers using such an arrangement to bring overseas models to the North American market in parallel to its US ones.